Cult 60's television show, The Prisoner, is being remade by ITV in the UK, to be broadcast in 2009. The 1960 version, starring Patrick McGoohan as the hero who finds himself trapped in a mysterious place called the Village, was shot in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, designed by Clough Williams-Ellis as an Italianate model community. The Village, with its stagey arrangements of buildings and spaces, helped the show a surreal edge and has became a celebrated tourist attraction partly as a result...
For the remake, starring Jim Caviezel in the role of Number Six, and Ian McKellan as the sinister Number Two, the location chosen is Swakopmund in Namibia. The town features a number of buildings in a Germanic colonial style.
It's a bit disappointing that the makers have chosen another slightly surreal baroque setting - imagine what it might have been like using the Brutalist spaces of say, Cumbernauld?
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